“Medical marijuana was, from the start, a back door to legalization, and now it’s swung wide open. If we really believed cannabis was a normative medical remedy, it would be sold in pharmacies like everything else your doctor prescribes. Instead, the (Los Angeles city) council is trying to regulate it in just the way we control bars or liquor stores or any other vendor of recreational intoxicants, while paying lip service to the really rather limited medicinal necessities.” So writes Tim Rutten in this clever and entertaining opinion column, which also takes L.A. City Attorney [...]
Dec 042009
LOS ANGELES — A judge has signaled he will bar a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary from selling the drug because he believes it violates state law. In this Associated Press story picked up by the San Jose Mercury News, Superior Court Judge James Chalfant said that he’s inclined to ban sales by the Eagle Rock dispensary Hemp Factory V while he hears a lawsuit by the Los Angeles city attorney, who is trying to close it permanently. “I don’t believe that a storefront dispensary that sells marijuana is lawful,” said Chalfant, who believes state [...]
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday postponed a vote on a medical marijuana ordinance after major changes were proposed by one councilman who said they were “the tip of the iceberg.” As the Los Angeles Times reports, city officials have struggled for more than two years to write a law to regulate the dispensaries. And whatever action the council takes, L.A. County District Attorney Steve Cooley has vowed to prosecute pot shops handling cash transactions.
Nov 182009
“What the (Los Angeles) City Council is doing is beyond meaningless and irrelevant,” District Attorney Steve Cooley says in this updated post on the L.A. Times’ metro blog. Angered by the council’s decision to allow cash transactions at pot dispensaries in its latest draft ordinance, Cooley said he’ll start prosectuting dispensaries regardless of the council’s actions; the ordinance is set for hearing today.
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